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January 19, 2010
David Axelrod: 'Hey, Scott Brown's a great guy'
Topics: Political News and commentariesObama's chief strategist and spin-meister is already in full spin mode and he's sounding uncharacteristically kind about the Republican candidate.
Paul West writes at The Swamp:
The Obama strategist volunteered praise for the Massachusetts Senate campaign run by the Republican, Scott Brown, and seemed to find nothing good to point to in the Democratic effort. He said he didn't want to "delve deeply into post-mortems on the day people are voting."Axelrod appeared to reject the criticism that he and his team had been taken by surprise and should have done more to head off a Democratic collapse. He said it was "not exactly a revelation to us" that voters are angry and anxious after a year in which millions of Americans have lost their jobs and millions more see no evidence in their lives that the economy is recovering.
Axelrod also said that there were "local issues at play" in Massachusetts and that the Republican had run "a very clever campaign."
"As a practitioner in politics, my hat's off to him," Axelrod said.
Posted by Richard at January 19, 2010 2:01 PM
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